Description:This is a 20 minute video about an extraordinary gathering, somewhere between a hack, a festival and a cult, where over five days bionic pop artiste Viktoria Modesta was given transhuman powers to interact with her own performances through neurofeedback, projection mapping and digital implants. My job was to document the event and make it make sense to a mass audience. With no light except workman's lights I had to drag around, no sound recordist and very little time, I lit and shot it, did all the interviews, then edited it myself into a 20 minute piece for the MIT Media Lab.

Description:This major international music festival wanted a film. As well as a portrait of the festival and of the village where it happens, they wanted to show how classical musicians learn to play in ensembles, and - most crucially - that they're normal human beings with families and a sense of humour. They didn't have much money, but they were wonderful people, so I shot and edited it myself and I'm quite proud of the result (as are they).

Description:Feature drama-documentary about an epic road race in Sicily. Responsible for £350k budget, including costume and makeup and £25m worth of vintage cars on location. Cowrote the script with director Philip Walsh. Produced, co directed and edit produced the material. Did all Italian interviews. Did all archive research and sourcing.

I was brought in to find the story in a pile of rushes shot in China, by somebody else, without a script. I succeeded to the extent that the programme duration was extended from 30 to 50 minutes and was 'pick of the day' in several national papers.

Description:2 x 1 hr HD for BBC Worldwide, ARTE, Beijing TV and ORF. The entire history of the Enlightenment compressed into 2 hours to be enjoyed by 250m people from Beijing to Paris.
I was responsible for writing both the programme outline and the scripts, for directing all the shoots and doing all interviews in French, German, Portuguese and English, supervising both edits, writing and producing all commentary, and seeing it all through to final post.
The whole schedule was less than 6 months from start to finish.

Description:A sixty minute documentary for the bicentenary of the composer Felix Mendelssohn, telling three parallel stories. I researched, wrote, produced and directed it, in England, France and Germany, with a skeleton crew and on a tiny budget, in 9 weeks from start to finish.
It was shown four times and nominated for last year's Grierson award for Best Arts Documentary.